Category: Viking Market

Come and experience the life as a Viking in the evening in Kvarnbo on Friday 28 July.

For 30 euros you will get:

Food and beverage. You can choose either meat or fish to eat and you get a beverage (beer/wine/cider/soft drink), coffee/tea and our famous viking pancakes as dessert.

Entrance to the Viking Market. The merchants have their stalls open until 20.00. which gives you time to walk around and see what they have to offer. We have several new merchants this year.

Bus Mariehamn-Viking village and back to Mariehamn. The bus starts at 18.00 from the bus station in Mariehamn (next to the city library) and makes a stop in Godby on the way to the Viking village. The bus returns at 01.00 from the Viking village via Godby back to the bus station in Mariehamn.

Entertainment with a spectacular fire show when the night falls, as well as Viking age music to set a genuine mood to your evening.

The bar in restaurant Knarren and the Boathouse are open all night.

Limited amount of tickets, so buy your ticket already today at visitaland.com! Tickets are available until Wednesday 26.7.

A reminder to all merchants, craftsmen and women and vikings. Please send in the final application form before 20 June if you haven’t already sent it, in order for us to know that you are coming. If you have informed us that you will let us know later whether you want to participate in the Welcoming feast or order breakfast, this is the time to get this on the form as well. 1,5 months to the market!

Information from Viking Line: Some vehicle combinations are already starting to become fully booked during the market week.
Remember to get the ferry booked in time, so you don’t end up on the shore. Merchants and vikings: Remember to fill in and send the final application form, that you have recived a link to, and state clearly which ferry company you wish to travel with if you want/need Fibula to book the ferry for you. If you haven’t received an answer from Fibula on the first inquiry form or e-mail, please send a reminder to aland-vikingar[at]aland.net and we will check it and get back to you.

Information for all merchants and vikings on their way to the market.
There is still space on the market area, so the booking deadline is extended a bit from 20th June forward. Bookings are made directly to Erik via e-mail aland-vikingar(at)aland.net. We will update the information here when the area is full and we have closed the booking.

The ferries are also starting to get full already. Some of the departures are already full and cannot take any more vehicles. Please remember to sort out your booking on the ferry as soon as possible in order to get a place on the ferry you want!

On the Saturday 10th, Sunday 11th and Monday 12th of November 2018. Urban Canyons will be filming a documentary on Viking Warrior Woman. This will take place on Aland

We are looking for people who have their own period correct clothing and equipment!

Preferably able to bring 2 or even 3 different sets of clothing (so we can change you in different characters) and 2 different shields.

On all three days we will need a group of 12 – 16 Viking warriors and around 6 Slavic civilians.

On Sunday the 11th, battle day, we will need 45 extra people. Mostly Slavic warriors and civilians. Making a total of 65 extras.

We will pay 100 euro per person a day + the ferry costs + food (and logging if necessary)

Interested? Send an email with your name, telephone number, location and what you do and a photo of yourself in kit to: springlevendverleden@hotmail.com . I do prefer group applications over individual.